“Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.”

“The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.”

“Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.”

“It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.”

“Of all the things which wisdom acquires to produce the blessedness of the complete life, for the greatest is the possession of friendship.”

“So death, the most terrifying of ills, is nothing to us, since so long as we exist, death is not with us; but when death comes, then we do not exist. It does not then concern either the living or the dead, since for the former it is not, and the latter are no more.”

“We must exercise ourselves in thte things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.”